Life in a Scotch Sitting Room, Vol. 2
Life in a Scotch Sitting Room, Vol. 2 | ||||
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Live album by Ivor Cutler | ||||
Released | 1978 | |||
Recorded | 3rd Eye Centre, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow 7 July 1977–9 July 1977 | |||
Genre | Spoken word | |||
Length | 53:14 | |||
Label | Harvest | |||
Ivor Cutler chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | (4.5/5)[1] |
Life in a Scotch Sitting Room, Vol. 2 is an album by Ivor Cutler, originally released in 1978. It was recorded live in Cutler's native Glasgow, and tells stories from his childhood growing up in a middle-class family around the time of the Great Depression.[2] The poems and stories from the album were also published as a book in 1984. (Life in a Scotch Sitting Room, Vol.2 (Methuen) ISBN 0-413-73580-X)
The sleeve notes include the following:
"Recorded by Pete Shipton of Radio Clyde at the 3rd Eye Centre, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, on the 7th, 8th, 9th of July, 1977.
Edited by Seán Murphy & Pat Stapely, and Master Record cut by Mick Webb.
All tracks registered with P.R.S and M.C.P.S and ©1977 Ivor Cutler.
Sleeve front - Helen Oxenbury ©1977. Lettering - Phyllis April King.
Deep gratitude to Al Clark and Seán Murphy."
Episodes 1 and 3 were tracks on the 1974 album Dandruff, although there is a discrepancy in the title shown for one of the tracks on that album compared with the track titles on Life in a Scotch Sitting Room, Vol.2. Four other episodes in total were previously recorded on 'Velvet Donkey' and 'Jammy Smears'
Track listing
- (All tracks written by Ivor Cutler)
- Side one
- "Episode 2" – 4:55
- "Episode 3" – 3:45
- "Episode 9" – 3:40
- "Jungle Tip: Owl" – 0:44
- "Episode 1" – 3:12
- "Episode 11" – 4:02
- "Jungle Tip: Lion" – 0:45
- "Episode 5" – 3:13
- "Episode 14" – 3:53
- Side two
- "Episode 7" – 3:54
- "Episode 12" – 4:10
- "Jungle Tip: Leopard" – 0:41
- "Episode 8" – 3:52
- "Episode 6" – 2:47
- "Episode 4" – 3:44
- "Jungle Tip: Boa" – 0:31
- "Episode 13" – 5:22
- "Episode 0" – 0:00
References
- ↑ Allmusic review
- ↑ Mason, Stewart. Review. Allmusic. Retrieved 11 Mar. 2006.